Payloads on Shuttle

[HeavyChevy57]

<p>Folks, can anyone tell me if this load going up tomorrow is the heaviest ever carried by a shuttle?&nbsp; If not, what was..</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[Testing]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Folks, can anyone tell me if this load going up tomorrow is the heaviest ever carried by a shuttle?&nbsp; If not, what was.. <br />Posted by HeavyChevy57</DIV><br /><br />per Google</p><p>Amazingly Columbia set many extremes in the shuttle program. The lightest shuttle cargo was Columbia&rsquo;s STS-1 with just 10,823 lbs. of instrumentation to monitor the maiden shuttle flight&rsquo;s performance. The heaviest shuttle payload was Columbia&rsquo;s STS-93 mission with the Chandra X-Ray observatory and its upper stage weighing in at 49,789 lbs. </p><p>The lightest shuttle landing was STS-1 at 195,472 lbs. and the heaviest was STS-83 at 213,060 lbs. - both on Columbia.</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[Cygnus_2112]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>per GoogleAmazingly Columbia set many extremes in the shuttle program. The lightest shuttle cargo was Columbia&rsquo;s STS-1 with just 10,823 lbs. of instrumentation to monitor the maiden shuttle flight&rsquo;s performance. The heaviest shuttle payload was Columbia&rsquo;s STS-93 mission with the Chandra X-Ray observatory and its upper stage weighing in at 49,789 lbs. The lightest shuttle landing was STS-1 at 195,472 lbs. and the heaviest was STS-83 at 213,060 lbs. - both on Columbia. <br /> Posted by Testing</DIV></p><p>&nbsp;Chandra was the heaviest unclassified payload.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

 

[MeteorWayne]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Folks, can anyone tell me if this load going up tomorrow is the heaviest ever carried by a shuttle?&nbsp; If not, what was.. <br />Posted by HeavyChevy57</DIV><br /><br />Should have been in my scribblenotes, sorry.</p><p>No it's not the heaviest, and it's not even the heaviest to go to the ISS from what was said in the news conference.</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[PistolPete]

Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>&nbsp;Chandra was the heaviest unclassified payload.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> Posted by Cygnus_2112</DIV><br />OPSEC, Jim. OPSEC! <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-wink.gif" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[lampblack]

<p>The payloads on STS-124 are really pretty straight-forward.</p><p>There is a laboratory -- and a lavatory.</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>

 

[JonClarke]

Just parts for one. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em>  Arthur Clarke</p> </div>